Carved and Painted Wooden Moccasins Letter Opener (?) ikat the dovetail box is missing

the dovetail box is missing the edge trim on one end of its sliding top

Retrospective exhibitions of his work have been presented in Dublin

but for an unglazed middle section decorated with bands of blue squiggles in slight relief

There is some loss of paint

and that this vessel was made using a mold

Carved and Painted Wooden Moccasins Letter Opener (?) ikat the dovetail box is missingI'm getting more and more into carved wooden objects, and this may be my favorite of them yet. I am not entirely sure if the "blade" was meant to be a letter opener or knife or what not, but these moccasins are just fantastic! The carving itself is great, and then the shoes have been painted with a terrific amount of detail: patterns of stripes, triangles, dots on the tops, and then a series of "M"s around the sides. Plus, a great little banding of